of the washington family died. young. washington was fairly old compared to his male peers in his family. and i think really, washington was a you know, he was tired. he was exhausted. he was ready to step back. he didn't really want to serve a third term. but the interesting part is it wasn't that he thought it was unconstitutional because the constitution didn't say that the president could only serve two terms that is something that comes much later. you know after franklin roosevelt serves not only a third term, but he's elected to a fourth term. he doesn't serve out that term. but there's a constitutional amendment passed, the 22nd amendment, after fdr stuff and ratified that prohibits a president from serving more than two terms. but between george washington and franklin d roosevelt, there's no other president that served more than two terms, even though there were probably a few that had the popularity who had the political capital or who could have probably gone on and won a third term. but they you know,

and then washington would leave. so again, it was a ceremony that was supposed to allow the public, you know, assuming that they were well attired, that they could arrive, they could be allowed access to the president's house. they could have a brief moment with the president to talk about something. and then that would be end of it. and you could probably imagine how jefferson and democratic republicans felt. they thought that this seemed very aristocratic, very courtly. but washington's thought that it was the best way to control access to the new president and by giving them sort of this one day a week, this time slot, if they wanted to try to come in and see the president, they could he also him and martha would then later create a coed receptions on friday evenings, typically between eight and 10:00. and these would be more relaxed, more informal. they were open to both men and women, and these weren't intended to be political, that these were really supposed to be more social gatherings where, of course, politi

in washington would leave. it was a ceremony that was supposed to allow the public assuming there were well attired they could arrive, they could be allowed access to the president's house. they could have a brief moment with the president to talk about something. and then that would be the end ofy it and you could probably imagine how jefferson and democratic republicans felt they thought it felt very aristocratic very courtly what washington thought it was the best way to control access to the new president. by giving them this one day a week timean slot that they wantd to try to come in and see the president they could. he also, him and martha would later create coed receptions on friday evenings typically between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. these to be more relaxed. more informal. they were open to both men and women. these were not intended to be political. these were supposed to be more social gatherings he and martha decide that host members of congress for dinners on thursday evenings. again, there's not a

mary ball, washington. like the washingtons in general, there was a fair amount of attention to also the washington family. the washington line symbolized the nation's anglo-saxon heritage present from its origins. the national lineage flowed from marian mary's feminine fecundity evidenin the paintings. so this one appeared in the 1877 book memorials of washington and of mary. his mother, and of martha, his wife. you often get that kind of twinning. the 19th century of mary and martha, i call it the middleton portrait. due to the claim that a british captain cum artist middleton, had no first name painted it at some point in it, mary is a sweet faced young woman making good on these bell descriptions. she's a beauty by conventional standards of the day. in this book, the author claims that mary was spoken of as the handsomest woman of her time, really embellishing this reputation as belle of the northern neck. lord lyndhurst, english politician. but born in boston, the son of artist john singleton. copley s

washington. so what happens is that those pits get covered over and forgotten and they were awaiting our archeologists to discover them. and it really was one of the most exciting things that we found. we also found something maybe didn't appeal to the popular media very much, but for us, it was pretty interesting. you see behind me what looks like a well, that's only about three feet deep. it's a sump and it is part of a larger drainage system that washington had installed in this new cellar, probably in the 1780s. and so we found trenches dug into the soil, lined with brick, and they all ran out to a major trunk drain that then exited the house to the south and went down to the dung repository. so it was draining any rainwater or any groundwater that got into the cellar. and we've had a lot of water here this week. and if you look here, you can see that this is where that drain was. it is still full of water because we've been getting rain and groundwater coming in because of all the rain. so t

and the role of the washington post just -- the washington hostess?nk so because washington is a city of outsiders. they are still called the cave dwellers, families who for generations have been in washington. but even in the last couple of weeks, every time an administration changes a new group comes to washington and the entertaining in this world, how people meet each other, how they help each other out, becomes very important. at least in perle's day, women didn't have the right to vote until 1920 and she was born in 1882. so the way women can have power was what they call soft power. she could give a dinner party, she could invite an important senator. and of course she could tell all her guests senator so-and-so was coming and everybody else would turn up. once harry truman was elected, perle's star was shown in washington. she was on the cover of time magazine in 1949 as the president's unofficial hostess. brian: how did you discover or rediscover perle mesta? ms. gordon: i worked in washington as a reporter starting in the late 1970's. so i h

i mean, apparently full of washington for donald trump. the issue of crime me is a done deal of crimea is boss of russia. it is almost have been written down in ukrainian legal documents at the same time. ukraine joining nato is also off the table for washington. and those are some of the things that ukraine has been talking a lot, and the probably guessing on the, on the nerves of the united states, the ukraine does not legally recognize the occupation of crimea. there is nothing to talk about. this is not in our constitution, this is our territory, the territory of the people of ukraine. everybody supports us and nato. russia demands that we refuse nato, have a question which is very direct. we refuse to join nato, and the united states of america is asking us to do that. if we want to be constructive, what do we get in return? we? what are the security guarantees story? so america says, for example, here are other security guarantees for you. is that a dialogue? it is, and what does russia give us in return? if we give up nato, what doe

so i'll give you this fact about washington washington's net worth. when he died, he had thought it was probably about $400,000. and after his death, they valued his estate at about $750,000. and this was big news. this like, you know, people want to know and, you know, today we would probably say it was, you know, 400, 500 million based on what he owned because he owned 52,000 acres of land in the us. but washington's was half a percent of 1% of the entire gdp in 1799. so that is a very big number. so i would tell you he was probably our wealthiest, but again, you have to put that caveat on him. jefferson, madison monroe and a number of them because of their slaveholder. but when you think about people who are also the best with money. one of my favorites has been herbert hoover. now we all of herbert hoover from 1928 to 1932. right. and you about him and you're like, oh, bad presidency, hoovervilles, the depression. but were the worst four years of hoover's life. hoover was actually amazing with money and was born in iowa. and by the time he's nine,

she actually grew up here in washington. she came to washington and as a child, she'd been born in iowa, spent her early years in wisconsin, some wonderful gossip up in the book where her mom's story up being quite interesting. mom had three marriages and two of them were failed marriages, including a divorce in 1848. and when i found the evidence of this divorce, it was just so like amazing because i knew there was something questionable about this middle marriage. well, then the third marriage is the marriage to eliza's father. so when that fell through in the middle of the civil war, mom comes to d.c. eliza, grows up here. so she is raised by her single mother, she and her brother here in d.c., mom ran a boarding house, i think, and she got a job at the u.s. treasury. so eliza went to georgetown visitation for a couple of years and then she went to oberlin. but for a while she didn't graduate. but the thing her was she was so precocious that when she went to georgetown visitation, i found the academic records on her and s

he's a washington insider, son of a president. you know, washington's always been his game. and so all these things kind of come together to create a narrative, rightly or wrongly that adams doesn't care about will of the people. he doesn't care what american voters think he's going to do, what he wants to do, which is sort of create this intellectual, elitist administration that is not going to be responsive to the real needs, the american people. and so that is the main narrative that the jacksonian focus on is all these missteps that the adams makes and he makes others throughout his four years that solidify this this this belief that he simply doesn't care what americans voters want. whereas jackson does. he is a man of the people, even though in many that's not true. mark cheathem is it fair to say that andrew jackson came into the presidency in 1829, a bit angry about what happened four years prior? oh, my goodness. yes jackson it's interesting. if you look at jackson's initial response when he loses the 1825 house election, he's he's a little bit upset, but he doesn't

again, whatever offer washington comes with. so the situation seems to be quite intense at the moment. yeah, i mean time is that means actually, so certain parties involved trying to get all the ducks in a row. so you rightly mentioned this meeting happening today in moscow. iranian officials, russian officials, chinese officials. but it seems that role getting ready perhaps for a ron's saturday meeting with washington in oman. what do you know? oh us uh president has claimed that washington and ron would be holding a high level and direct tops in amman on saturday. not to run did the from the negotiations, but it pulls them in the right pulse with and it has also we have from its commitment to diplomacy now and contrary to donald trump's comments, uranian a foreign minister did come out in the night that any direct communications between a are occurring between both sides and he also at that's essentially the ball is in american sports. did you take care of that as a more at present we prefer indirect talks between iran in the

washington, is that his eyes on? no, just, you know, iran for example, but china, china always seems to be like the final in game when it comes to a certain foreign policy. think times in the united states. um, do you think professor, that america really has a, a true capability to isolate china in the current world or absolutely not in china is the biggest trading partner with most countries in the world. china has the world's most advanced industrial system, and is that the cutting edge of new high tech products that emerging and developing economies need and can afford uh, at the same time, john has worked hard to sell, take good relations with others through projects related to the road initiative, as well as building new many, many lateralism like bricks. at the same time, you know, china has diversified, its trade only about 14 percent of the, of its exports, and now going to the us. and it's also at the same time doing building alternatives to swift and now clearing around 50 percent across the board of trade

from washington and across the country.ing up wednesday morning senior fellow ethics and public policy center at woodland discusses the role of the federal court including the supreme court is a check on the power of the executive branch than kfs health news chief washington correspondent on the future of the affordable care act the supreme court case that reviewed its provisions on preventive care. she spends "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern wednesday morning on c-span comments he spent now are free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. ♪ >> this week prime time encore presentation of her 10 part series first 100 days. the early months of the presidencies from george washington in 1789 to donald trump in 2017 but will learn about the decisions made how that shape the white house, the nation and history tonight we will feature the first days of ronald reagan's presidency in 1981 the former california governor when white house by defeating president jimmy carter in 1980 election came to washington with an a

he founded his own newspaper in washington. and francis preston blare from kentucky, who the blair house comes from him. he was the editor. jackson would help with the editorials. he would look at copy. he understood that the message coming out of the white house had to be consistent, had to be personal, he understood because he was a military man, the role of the general or the president in the human drama ever leadership. and knew very well, he agreed with something that nathaniel hawthorne recorded in the late 1820's when he heard a democratic senator say that it is not just the creed that americans tend to follow in their politics, but also the apostles. >> and this is american history tv series, the first 100 days where we look at the early months of a new presidency. we're looking at andrew jackson's 1829, his first few months in office. our guest is mark cheatham with cumberland university where he's a history professor. the author of this book "andrew jackson, southerner". professor cheatham what was the reaction in off

to get a kent washington end of the crumbling back on track. so again, it looks like uh, it looks like again it is, it is a major sign of progress. but did she of that the us treasury actually lifted sanctions off meet fee of so that he could get a visa and travel to the united states to meet with his counterparts in the oval office in the white house. but again, we're still a long way away from russia in the united states finding common ground so far, what we see is a strong intention of both nations to well men, the ties are to correspond inc. are stand out here. thank you. hold on, trump has delivered on his promise to tax the world. tariffs on imports ranging from 10 to 50 percent were slapped on nations across the globe and let the us president and liberation de china. and some of washington's partners in asia are facing the worst types in the eu has been hit. hard to show, however, did not make an appearance on the list, published by the white house. mister thomas dress, that his economic measures are merely reciprocal. and not nearly as

washington was ready to recognize the crime in peninsula as part of russia. now, both these got both these terms and demands that they have been a red line for ukraine for a while. and it has been drawing i a, on behalf of the washington, the fact that ukraine didn't want to even discuss any of that. and then it was new to the ukraine, does not legally recognize the occupation of crimea. if there is nothing to talk about. this is not in our constitution. this is our territory, the territory of the people of ukraine. everybody supports us and nato. russian demands that we refuse nato. someone who have a question, which is very direct to quoting, so we refused to join nato, and the united states of america is asking us to do that. because if we want to be constructive it, so what do we get in return? what are the security guarantee money? america says, for example, here are other security guarantees for you. is that a dialogue? and that's it is. and what does russia give us in return? if we give up nato, what does russia give up? that is it logical edition, mos

amazing has cold. washington's demands unsustainable. the new tariffs would effect key imports, such as smartphones, computers, and even lithium batteries as a global markets to react to the stand off. many question whether trump strategy will weaken china or erode america's own economic influence, were heard from cdp and reporters yang is showing. she said china is standing firmly against the us pressure. it is clear that china is not going to back down. and i think when it comes to practice, perhaps more counter tariffs could be on the card. if trump administration choose it to mix ret, whether is 34 percent or even more than you know, 50 percent 11, a 100 percent. but the fact is that the risk of heading towards a true or 2nd is really escalating and that trade is really disrupted and try to strong, strong response to get from to a negotiating table. i think that will mean a lot because we know that the economic cooperation and collaboration between the world's 2 largest economy really plays a significant part when it comes to the dev

do mind, he's flow to washington. he's addressed previous administration, saying plumbing wrong on there on, i think from was to make a deal, frankly. but here's the thing you all in washington. he's suggesting 8, maybe a like scenario for a rod. we will remember what in a code that the libby up for on bombing campaign blowing into some of the read it still have broken state regarding that. and you always proposal, that's ok. that's a quick listen to what he had to say. a book were both united indeed of gold. 31 does not ever got nuclear weapons as it can be done diplomatically in a full way. that way it was done in libya. i think that would be a good thing for whatever happens, we have to make sure that he one does not have duplicate records. wow. and then you're saying it will be a good thing. can you take us through it? of those comments came during his meeting with president trump in the white house and they come um it goes back to when libya under mama put that fee essentially agreed to dismantle its nuclear prog

it comes the tensions between washington and tara escalate. already runs a nuclear program, both united in the gold that one does not ever get nuclear weapons, as it can be done diplomatically in a full way that way it was done in libya. i think that would be a good thing. as and nothing yackel makes threats along side trump in washington, iran says it will engage in thoughts to the us this week as it rejects israel's rhetoric about it's facing a page similar to that of libya at all. the see us the dream that our nuclear power will become like libya, put, that is not going to happen unless the rainy a nation and leadership do not exist, which is also not possible. china will fight till the end. china vows to resist what he calls, economic intimidation, as it says, counselor measures are being prepared in response to the us, tara, the, you're watching. our teams are national. my name is the board of it's been off the welcome to the program and our top story, this our defense and security cooperation between moscow into iran had been submitted f

o believe is the washington's actions? i guess the ron will backfire against the united states, or unlike libby, which has a whole rest of world gives to you from has 2 major um colleagues and close close cropped, injured cooperation partners. they are russia in china. that is a vast difference. as regards time cooperation, the you hide your coverage is very, very tight. if united states fort hood zack uh, the, the payroll office made it clear that they will close the strengths of the farmers . and that will cut off the supply of all of our goals, oil to the world that will be in an enormous crisis. they will be a gender stating impact on the global economy. americans may not be so richard, but what happens as a result of mr. trump's term policies, when the price of buffalo, good french wine goes from 15 years to 50 years, americans will be in months. if the price of gasoline goes up by $10.00 or 15 to 20 percent. and it's a matter of days which would be the natural consequence of any cut off a glass of lice to the storage

she actually grew up here in washington. she came to washington and as a child, she'd been born in iowa, spent her early years in wisconsin, some wonderful gossip up in the book where her mom's story up being quite interesting. mom had three marriages and two of them were failed marriages, including a divorce in 1848. and when i found the evidence of this divorce, it was just so like amazing because i knew there was something questionable about this middle marriage. well, then the third marriage is the marriage to eliza's father. so when that fell through in the middle of the civil war, mom comes to d.c. eliza, grows up here. so she is raised by her single mother, she and her brother here in d.c., mom ran a boarding house, i think, and she got a job at the u.s. treasury. so eliza went to georgetown visitation for a couple of years and then she went to oberlin. but for a while she didn't graduate. but the thing her was she was so precocious that when she went to georgetown visitation, i found the academic records on her and s

washington, d.c. was the epicenter of the assassination and sadness and when the angels called abraham lincoln home on saturday morning, it started to rain in washington and raindrops mixed with teardrops formed an unforgettable image on the faces. those in the nation's capital, washington, was indeed the epicenter because only in washington did two public viewings take place. one at the white house and the other at the capitol. there was a lot of sadness. there was a lot of sorrow. there was a lot of hurt and a lot of pain. a weeping black man on pennsylvania avenue feared that the assassination did not portend well for his race. and he said if death can come to him, what will happen to us. there in d.c. yeah, yeah. the train. was not ready to leave yet. there were a few more things they had to do, and one was to relocate lincoln's body from the white house to the capitol. this is the relocation of his body in washington and and thousands of people turned out to witness this event. many black people

there are some people who criticize some things that the "washington post" says. have no idea what you're talking about. but have you ever had a credit card denied? has that ever happened? bezos: i have. i've had my credit card denied. what do you say when they-- you say, "don't you know who i am"? bezos: i give 'em another credit card. [laughter] i say, "here try this one." woman: would you fix your tie please? rubenstein: people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. all right. i don't consider myself a journalist. nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? your stock is actually up 70% this year. is there one thing that you think is responsible for that or several things? because 70% is pretty good. [laughter] bezos: now, i have been lecturing. we have all-hands meetings at amazon. and for 20 years, ever since we've been-- 21 years now, in 1

washington has set the stage by issuing a clear, ultimate is ultimate goal. and the ultimate objective is to ensure that a wrong can never obtain a nuclear wash weapon of the president believes in diplomacy, direct talks, talking directly in the same room, in order to achieve that goal. but he's made it very clear to the iranians and his national security team will as well that all options are the on, on the table. and a ron has a choice to make. you can agree to president trump's demand, or there will be all hell to pay and that's how the president feels. he feels very strongly about if you will send you one or set to engage in high level talks in on the saturday or well, the meeting games to address the ongoing standoff between um and montana. juan's actually and the other side over to who wants nuclear program. uh, well, uh, steal the formats or veterans say that there is a sticker mentor to form into the talks you as president donald trump talks about direct negotiations. while he wants foreign minister, i boss, or while she has said that the negotiations

and as washington turns, the tables on brussels, e. u and nato officials huddled together in the face of mounting pressure from the long time leader of the west. the i'm rachel ruble live in moscow here watching our t international. the us will succeed where the e. u has failed. that's donald trump's take on the prospect of achieving peace in ukraine. a spear, adding the driver to get it done is not been successful in dealing with risk right before that russia's investment fund. the chief, acting as moscow's envoy in washington held a news conference following talks with steve woodcock. he says the trump administration understands russia's position and is engaged in open dialogue, the business loading they beat them store. we can certainly see that a large number of players, different countries are trying to disrupt this dialogue, the restoration of us russian relations. and you're trying to prevent the resolution of issues that need to be addressed. there are a lot of rumors circulating, distorted quotes, misquotes misinterpretations,

and that you would also propose that here in washington, but it remains to be seen. if 2 will be successful with it and will need to wait for the press release as from the office of georgia, maloney. and also from the why does this, there won't be a joint press conference between both leaders later on and on china, mr. trump, sadly he's got to make a good deal with that. may also claim china was willing to have a meeting with us at the tell us will to this. right. but that's something that he's saying not only about china, but of, of about many leaders. this message that we've heard over and over from the wife has said leader, so scrambling to talk to him off to this so called liberation day when he imposed new tires on so many different countries in china, you say we're going to make a deal. i think we're going to make a very good deal with sign of of the question is also good for him. good for the us . good for china. that they are these negotiations on going, but as always we should be really careful with what he says. what might happen if this deal is actually if

we'll look at how washington conveniently ignores these roles. the last possession of news, the cut over. welcome to our team to an option, a new center. what the latest update i have, michael question, are right those days after sending a wrecking ball is through the global economy and wiping billions of thoughts, both at home and abroad. donald trump has based on all my t. u tugs passing his tires for at least 90 days, while slashing the rates for most countries down to 10 percent. all except china, that is, which has been punished for daring to retaliate. the president is increasing the rates against beijing all the way up to a 125 percent. although he insist that the door to a deal is always open. nothings over yet, but we have a tremendous amount of spirit from other countries, including china. china wants to make a deal. they just don't know how quite to go about it. you know, it's one of those things that are not quite proud people. and presently she's a proud man, i know and very well. and they don't know quite how to go about it, but the

but here's the video in washington. he's suggesting 8, maybe a like scenario for a rod, and we will remember what nato did, the libby up for on bombing campaign, blowing it to some of the read it still have broken state regarding that and you always proposal with that. so that's a quick listen to what he had to say. a book were both united indeed of gold. 31 does not ever got nuclear weapons, as it could be done diplomatically in a full way that way it was done in libya. i think that would be a good thing or whatever happens we have to make sure that he won does not have duplicate records. wow. and then you're saying it will be a good thing. can you take us through it? of those comments came during his meeting with president trump in the white house and they come and it goes back to when olivia under mama put that fee essentially agreed to dismantle its nuclear program. in exchange, a normalization of relations with the was said, it was seen as a diplomatic success for a bed, but the diplomacy and the center relief that

he called in washington in brussels to take immediate action against the g. your a bit, tiny foreign ministry has just basically allegations as groundless. meanwhile, the use top deep to mind codes, the last keys, accusations against beijing, blaming it for spiking the watering ukraine. it is clear that the china has been the key enabler of the rushes war of aggression. nato has stated this so, so a and, and our statements. now, another question is, how are we getting this message across? meanwhile, western defense cheese i said to meet in brussels of military aid for ukraine. the session is known as the rom stein, 4 months after the huge us ad base a job. however, there is one noticeable absence, the head of the pentodes and is not expected to attend our days contribute to reach a mask that has more on this. so this is yet another meeting of the ukraine defense contact grew, not at their usual hang out in germany and nato's around sine air base. now this ramstein group, as it's called, was meant to put on a big scary show of support for ukraine. almost exact

if it does not accept whatever offer washington comes with. and we just know we just heard that donald trump also threatened around with bonbon strikes suitcase. it disagrees with, again, whatever at all for washington comes with. so the situation seems to be quite intense at the moment. yeah, i mean, time is certainly it's actually so certain parties involved to trying to get all the ducks in a row. so you rightly mentioned this meeting happening today in moscow, iranian officials, russian officials, chinese officials. but it seems that role getting ready perhaps for a ron's saturday meeting with washington in oman. what do you know o u. s. president has blamed that washington and ron would be holding a high level. and so i wrapped tops in amman on saturday, not to run, did the from the negotiations, but it pulls them in the right pulse with. and it has also we have from its commitment to diplomacy now and contrary to donald trump's. com is the of any and a foreign minister did come out in the night that any direct communications between a ar